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One might think that mapping speed restrictions on railway tracks is a solved problem. However temporary restrictions are intentionally not recorded in #OpenStreetMap.
@gymate obtained speed restriction data for Hungary via a FOI request and matches it onto the network by the milestones.
Slides of his talk:
https://github.com/gy-mate/kalauz/blob/main/presentation/OTCC/slides.md?plain=1
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All our users were told within the last hour that they/their application consumes too much resources at openrailwaymap.org. This is wrong for almost all of you. ❤️
This message should have appeared on a couple of Hungarian live tracking sites only. Due to a mistake, it appeared everywhere.
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One might think that mapping speed restrictions on railway tracks is a solved problem. However temporary restrictions are intentionally not recorded in #OpenStreetMap.
@gymate obtained speed restriction data for Hungary via a FOI request and matches it onto the network by the mi…
All our users were told within the last hour that they/their application consumes too much resources at openrailwaymap.org. This is wrong for almost all of you. ❤️
This message should have appeared on a couple of Hungarian live tracking si…
No surprise: The most frequent users of the Hungarian train delay map kozlekedesiklub.hu are railway operators themselves: #GySEV (2%) and #MAV (1%) 😆
I found this out by counting tile requests of users of kozlekedesiklub.hu to tiles.openr…
The issue was resolved. OpenRailwayMap is up again. See https://github.com/OpenRailwayMap/server-admin/issues/46 for technical details.
OpenRailwayMap is currently down (since 13:17 UTC).
Until 14:12, the frontend had the same bug in the opposite direction. Therefore few people noticed it at all.
https://github.com/OpenRailwayMap/OpenRailwayMap-api/issues/6
Latitude and longitude have been swapped in the responses of our search API for years. This bug was fixed right now.
Users of the website are affected if they loaded the website before 14:12 UTC today and send search requests without relo…
Unfortunately, the rendering database was incomplete and the new server delivered tiles lacking many lines. The database import was quick but it will take a few hours to rerender all tiles in the cache. The bug affected IPv6 clients only b…
A new tile server replacing the old one is going into service this weekend. Users of IPv6 will access it first. In the beginning, you might notice missing tiles because zoom levels are prerendered only. Tiles on larger levels will be rende…
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OpenRailwayMap is currently down to a broken network switch at our hoster Hetzner. https://status.hetzner.com/de/incident/b3cd6e3e-0dc5-4226-b54d-068d3b7f8f2d
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